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RangerRickL
Posts: 8,469 Member
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
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Yesterday, my dear and respected UAC friend and honorary co-captain, @craigo3154. shared a Ted talk. The Ted talk is to be something that is an idea worth sharing. In my experience, they always are ideas worth sharing.
Since we have a small community of caring relationship called the Ultimate Accountability Challenge, we have chosen to support each other for our individual and common good and well-being.
Here is one of my favorite Ted talks and it's 12 minutes long so I'll share the bottom line based on a 75 year study of Harvard men and an equal number of men from Boston's at risk neighborhoods. The purpose of the study is to determine,"What makes a good life?"
The conclusion after studying hundreds of participants over 7 decades is "Good relationships protect our bodies and our minds. We should lean in to relationship with others."
Here it is for anyone who wants to invest in living long and well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI 12 -
May 9
Exercised?: Yes. (3km walk hills - 24 mins)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Early walk before rain.
@RangerRickL. Loved the TED talk. Amazing study.
I am a bit of a loner. This is part of my extreme INTJ personality (also likely undiagnosed ASD as it was not diagnosable when I was a child. I am in the "high functioning" side of the spectrum, so can operate in society and have found my niche). However I feel blessed that I found a life partner that I can rely on. She knows me and accepts me for who I am.
I know I do not reach out often enough. Sharing with UAC is at least one avenue in which I do reach out.17 -
May 9, 2019
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, Elliptical, strength machines
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass day 0/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records)8 -
Hi all x got my exercise in early today; walked my daughter to school (she gets a badge for walking in) then I walked home 30 mins. have tracked everything and am about 400 below my target 3xyes. best wishes all x7
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May 9
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 30 mins strength training, 50 min walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 3 hours packing, and a total of 60 mins walking at various points on our way down to Dublin airport
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Quite a bit under budget today. Planning to continue this during our holiday.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes!
I stumbled across the Ted talks quite a few months ago. Very motivational.9 -
Exercise, yes: personal Training plus a couple hours of organizing and sorting.
Calories, yes
Logged, yes7 -
Exercise yes
Tracked yes
Under yes5 -
5/9
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes6 -
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Date: May 9
Exercised?: yes 2x walking total – 2 hours and 23 minutes, also Leslie Sansone’s 3.1 mile – 45 minutes and Richard Simmon’s Cardio for 20 minutes and toning for 15 minutes
Calories?: yes
Tracked food and drinks?: yes
Hi @stella7x7, awesome transformation, keep up the great work!
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May 9
Exercise: yes but I only did casual walking for half hr
Calories: under about 300 (suspect it's because I didn't do anything strenuous today)
Tracked: yes
Thanks for sharing the video about the importance of relationships. Very true....good relationships make us happy and give us support and happiness...and if we're generally happy we're less apt to lean on bad behaviors to make us feel good. How many of us have had children grow up and leave the nest, loved pets who passed away, and maybe some of us moved far from old friends and family.....the house gets empty. That there results in loneliness whether or not we see it. Humans tend to turn to other behaviors to fill that void and all too often, those behaviors are not beneficial nor do they fix the root cause of the problem.8 -
Yes x 3. Did a 56 min HIIT Fitness Blender video with my daughter today. Burpees...blech.
I’m very much a Ted Talks fan although I tend to read the transcript rather than watch the video. So much faster.4 -
3 X’s Yes
5 hours of gardening. Way too low on calories.
I am a genuinely happy person.5 -
May 9
Exercised: Ripped in 30 L1 + 29K steps + 55 minutes Ballet Stretch & Strength
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Don't have time to watch the Ted Talk now, but will check it out later. Like @craigo3154, I consider myself a significant introvert. I am happily single and love my space, but I do have an awesome network of family and friends, and I enjoy a small number of online groups like this one. I guess we all create our supports in our own ways. ^_^
@Stella7x7, what an awesome transformation!6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Yes...circuits
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Thanks Rick!5 -
May 9
Apologize if this is a duplicate. I can’t tell if the one I posted earlier took.
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 41 mins.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, 250-ish to spare.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep
Also, acc to my weigh in this am, I am finally back to my pre-Jan 20 2017 weight. I started drinking and comforting myself with food quite a bit then for some reason.6 -
Date: May 9
Exercised?: Yes, refreshing 30 minute walk
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 20 minutes elliptical 15 biking
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
May 1 166.2
May 2 166.4
May 3 165.9
May 4 165.8
May 5 167
May 6 166.9
May 7 166.4
May 8 165.3
May 9 164.7
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Exercise - yes
Calories - yes
Track - yes
0/3 pass days4 -
5/9
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, outside walk before the rain arrived
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, on target
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
@stella7x7 Congratulations on your progress...continue to look forward to your posts!
@mwilson7983 Great progress, so far, this month. You should be pleased!6 -
5/9:
Exercise: Yes, 1 hour run / walk
Calories: Yes, under
Tracked: Yes, every single thing!
No pass days used so far so I’m feeling hopeful! Although it’s a sure thing I will be going over calories on Mother’s Day (ayce brunch!!). 😱
Love Ted Talks, thanks for sharing! ☀️4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, recumbent bike, 20 minutes, 6.28 miles
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes4 -
Exercise: 33 minutes of treadmill and jump rope intervals.
Calories: Well under my limit
Tracking: good4 -
Yes x3. Leslie Sansone walking video.3
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES! 50 minutes on the treadmill with Treadmill TV! Many thanks to the suggestion, I LOVE it!
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES!3 -
Yes, spin class, 20 minute walk.
Yes
Yes, but I ate a lot of exercise calories.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, a 90 min walk outside - before it rains tomorrow
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
May 9, 2019
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 3 mile run this morning outside and very active work day -- ending the day with 18K+ steps
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes and under by 4 calories! LOL
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep!3 -
Will checkout the ted talk thank you
Yes x 3 for today3
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